Published Online:December 2024
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Effective Executive
Product Type:Article
Product Code:EE031224
Author Name:Kai-Alexander Schlevogt
Availability:YES
Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:33
An increasing number of helmsmen of organizations in different fields are issuing back-to-office mandates. The new “Inverted Office Power Pyramid” model presents the fundamental granular forces at work driving the seemingly unstoppable return-tooffice megacycle trend after an extended period of work from home (WFH). It covers the (1) organizational economic, (2) behavioral economic, (3) leadership and managerial, and (4) personal level. This paper focuses on the bottom two layers of the new analytical framework, that is, the leadership and managerial level and personal level. The dynamic impact exerted by the finely chiseled drivers at the four levels suggests that due to the presence of systemic and anthropological constants, smart meta-leaders are likely to ensure that the office will remain a pivotal gathering place— most likely in conjunction with some remote work whenever necessary. This means that the Great Reset vision proposed and promoted most forcefully by the leadership of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is not likely to materialize in full, at least in the short term.
Introduction: Organizational Frogs Jumping Back into the Inhouse Rut Somewhere in a remote Russian village, there was a frog sitting in a rut. His amphibian fellows beseeched him on many occasions over a long period of time to leave the prison-like furrow to live a better life in freedom.